The Emissary

This review, despite using insulting words, is entirely written with awe and love.

The story is filthy and disgusting. People spontaneously change sex, the world is polluted, they eat bugs, society is regressive, the youth age unnaturally fast and suffer from many ills, government doesn't serve the people, and extreme isolation is everywhere. It's awful. What a terrible world to live in, and what a foreseeable future for us it is.

And that's what makes it so good. The author's creative way of treating these things as completely normal, through the eyes of its main characters, Yoshiro and Mumei, who are great-grandfather and great-grandson.

Don't read more about this anywhere. Go in blind and read it. It's amazing.